In: Nursing
As an educator, you have been approached by the manager to assist with the moving of the unit currently on Floor 6 to Floor 4. This move is going to occur during the day and time that you and your learners are scheduled. The manager would appreciate your participation because with you and your learners, there will be sufficient assistance without having to pay significant overtime. While the learners will be moving the patients in their beds, they also will be moving equipment, bedside tables, infusion pumps, etc. to the other floor as well.
Although you, the educator, would like to help, several questions occur in your mind. These include the following.
Please debate the pros and cons in providing assistance to the floor during the move as a learning activity.
According to me, the students are getting good opportunities by helping in shifting the equipment and patient to another ward. From these services, the students can learn or have ideas regarding how to shift a patient from one place to another place, what are the supportive equipment can be used to shift the patient base on the severity of the patient's condition. so, the students can learn the transferring of patient procedures form it. The student nurse also will give a chance to handle all the equipments which are used in the ward. The students will get an idea of how to arrange the ward which is newly opened from this work. The relationship will be more increase with the student nurse and the RN nurse working in the ward.
The disadvantage of participating in this shifting is that the student nurses are not well known regarding how to shift the patient, so it may create a problem. If any mishandling of equipment may lead to the destruction of the equipment. As the educator used to make learning objective for daily, the nurse educator needs to change it. If not accepting the work may create a bad relationship with the student nurses and the RN nurses. This will be problem for the future practical posting.